Workshop on Stabilometry Standardization
                                                                           Pre-Congress ISPGR, Seville 27 June 2015
                                                                                   Lorenzo Chiari

Please provide a brief outline of the workshop goals and objectives (maximum of 1800 characters including spaces, approx. 300 words)*
This workshop aims to take to a conclusion the process started during the ISPGR congress in Bologna, when a group of members of the Society reconvened to refresh and update a discussion started in the early 80's (see Kapteyn et al, 1983) about standardization in clinical stabilometry. The discussion took a relevant step further during the meetings in Akita and Vancouver, where a Consensus Document was drafted and opened for discussion, and a roadmap towards finalization of the Consensus approved. This includes the collection of feedbacks on the Consensus Document till March 2015, whose results shall be presented and discussed during this workshop. In addition, the workshop shall be an opportunity to train and/or update the audience on some recent achievements in the field of force-plate stabilometry and introduce preliminary results in the direction of inertial sensors-based stabilometry.

Please provide the the following information for all speakers presenting at the pre-conference workshop

Speaker 1: Please include name & affiliation, plus a brief description of presentation/contribution (max. 100 words/600 characters)
Kathryn Sibley, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute- University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Consensus Process: why, what and how? Objectives of consensus decision-making in clinical stabilometry. Methods. State of the art. Need for evidence-based consensus.

Speaker 2: Please include name & affiliation, plus a brief description of presentation/contribution (max. 100 words/600 characters)
Lorenzo Chiari, Dept. Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy. Consensus Document - Section I: Terminology. Agreement on definitions of relevant signals and biomechanical quantities.

Speaker 3: Please include name & affiliation, plus a brief description of presentation/contribution (max. 100 words/600 characters)
Antonio Nardone, Dept. Translational Medicine, Universita' degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale "Amedeo Avogadro", Novara, Italy. Consensus Document - Section II: Procedure. Agreement of relevant procedural variables to standardize or control for during the stabilometric experiment.

Speaker 4: Please include name & affiliation, plus a brief description of presentation/contribution (max. 100 words/600 characters)
Sabato Mellone, Dept. Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy. . Consensus Document - Section III: Technical requirements. Agreement on a minimum set of technical requirements for the measurement device.

Speaker 5: Please include name & affiliation, plus a brief description of presentation/contribution (max. 100 words/600 characters)
Martina Mancini, Dept. Neurology, Balance Disorders Laboratory, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA. Mitsuhiro Aoki, Dept. Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Akita Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan. Consensus Document - Section IV: Stabilometric parameters. Agreement on a minimum set of relevant parameters to be computed out of a stabilometric test, and their algorithmic definition.

Speaker 6: Please include name & affiliation, plus a brief description of presentation/contribution (max. 100 words/600 characters)
Kazuo Ishikawa, Dept. Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck surgery, Akita Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan. Consensus Process: what's next? How to deal with the outcomes of this process at a National level. Clinical impact of the Consensus. Publication strategy.
Please provide brief bullet points of the takeaway skills, knowledge and material (if appropriate) that attendees will acquire by attending your workshop (maximum of 1800 characters including spaces, approx. 300 words)
- Basic and advanced knowledge on force-plate stabilometry;
- Refreshment on relevant metrological properties of measurement;
- Factors affecting the measurement process in stabilometry;
- Some examples of good practice in clinical stabilometry;
- Active involvement in a Delphi-like consensus methodology;
- Basic knowledge on measurement devices such as force plates and wearable accelerometers.
Please provide a brief description of the format of your proposed workshop (maximum of 1800 characters including spaces, approx. 300 words)
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The workshop will include six communications (summing up to 120 min) to update the audience on relevant discussions held at previous ISPGR meetings and to present the conclusions of the Consensus process. A significant amount of time, though, (60 min) will be dedicated to discuss the results of the Delphi-like consensus process and to outline an agreed strategy on the implementation of the agreement and its widespread publication.

Authors:
Prof. Lorenzo Chiari , Prof. Antonio Nardone, Dr. Kathryn Sibley, Dr. Martina Mancini, Dr. Pierre-Marie Gagey, Prof. Kazuo Ishikawa